...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
Read, read read. Read everything.
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
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